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Fanghao Chen, is a Ph.D. student in Chinese and Comparative Literature. He received his B.A (2008) in Chinese Language and Literature and M.A. (2011) in Comparative Literature and World Literature from Shanghai University. He obtained his second M.A. (2013) in Chinese Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and joined the Ph.D. program in Chinese and Comparative Literature in the same year. Fanghao’s dissertation project focuses on the representations of space, place, human's individual and mass mobility, and the relationships between human and the environment in various historical circumstances in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and films (1898-1953). His primary interests include mobility theory, geocriticism, spatiality studies, and the spatial humanities. Fanghao has served in various leadership roles and on committees at Washington University, including the Teaching Center, the Graduate Student Senate and Peer Mentoring Programs in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Comparative Literature Program. Currently he is in the second year of his role as a member of the Graduate-Student Advisory Group at The Teaching Center.

Meijie Shen, a native of Hangzhou, received her MA in pre-modern Chinese Literature from the University of Iowa, and joined the EALC Chinese program at Washington University in St. Louis in 2013. Her research interest lies in Buddhism (Chinese and Japanese); in the meanwhile, her keen interest in women’s writings of late imperial China remains unabated. Outside the classroom, she is also a practitioner of Aikido and Taichi.

Li Wei was born and raised in Hangzhou, a southern Chinese city which is known for its beautiful natural scenery and splendid history and culture. She received her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2010, and completed her M.A. in Chinese at Washington University. In fall 2012 she began the her PhD studies in Chinese Language and Literature. She believes that she's finally pursuing the things that she is genuinely passionate about. Her interests lie in women writers and the representation of women in both pre-modern and modern Chinese literature, classical Chinese poetry and translation.

Wei Wang is from Beijing. She received her B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Beijing Language & Culture University in 1995 (double majors), and her M.A. in Chinese (historical linguistics) from the University of Minnesota in 2001. Her master thesis is the “Grammaticalization of ‘er 而’” (in the pre-Qin context). Before she came to the U.S. she taught Chinese language at Beijing Foreign Studies University from 1995~1998. She served as a Chinese lecture at Princeton University from 2001~2004, and currently she is a senior lecturer in Chinese at Washington University in St. Louis. She was admitted to the Ph.D program in Chinese Language and Literature in 2011. Her research interests include vernacular Chinese fiction in the late imperial China, and the relationship between text and image (illustrations). She is also interested in women writers as well as the interaction between religion and literature. Besides teaching and studying, Wei also enjoys visiting small towns, exploring coffee houses, and dancing.

Yihan Wang was born and raised in Jinan, China. She received her BA in English from Nankai University (Tianjin), during which time she was an exchange student to Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota) for one year where she learned Spanish. She studied Comparative Literature at University College London for her MA degree, and is now pursuing a PhD degree in Chinese and Comparative Literature with a Film and Media Certificate. Her interests include contemporary Chinese literature, Sino-Latin American exchange, Film Studies, Affect Studies, and Cognitive narratology.